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B-418216,B-418216.2,B-418216.3 1 (2020-01-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeaxf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has 1been approved for public release. Matter of: 100 Westminster Partners, LLC File: B-418216; B-418216.2; B-418216.3 Date: January 27, 2020 Mary Beth Bosco, Esq., and Gordon Griffin, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Alex D. Tomaszczuk, Esq., Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., and Dinesh C. Dharmadasa, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for Providence Financial Plaza, LLC, the intervenor. Jessica Gunzel, Esq., General Servcies Administration, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly awarded lease to offeror that proposed space on contiguous floors is denied where space was being procured for the United States Attorneys' Office and solicitation incorporated design guide which permitted space on contiguous floors. 2. Protest that agency improperly awarded lease to offeror that proposed space in a building where a firm specializing in criminal law was also a tenant, in violation of the terms of the lease solicitation, is denied where criminal law is just one of firm's 25 practice areas. 3. Protest that agency improperly awarded lease to offeror that failed to meet solicitation's energy efficiency requirements is denied where protester does not identify any specific energy efficiency requirements that awardee's proposed building will not meet. 4. Protest that agency is required to cancel lease because of a conflict of interest due to both protester and awardee being represented by agents that work for the same broker is denied where protester does not demonstrate it was competitively prejudiced. 5. Protest that agency performed improper present value price evaluation is denied where protester does not demonstrate that it was competitively prejudiced by error.